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- ISBN: 9780061340406 (pbk.)
- ISBN: 0061340405 (pbk.)
- Physical Description: xviii, 312 p. ; 21 cm.
- Edition: 1st ed.
- Publisher: New York : Harper, c2008.
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Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references (p. ... Read More |
Formatted Contents Note: | Preface: Novel possibilities, or all animals ... Read More |
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Subject: | Fiction > History and criticism. Books and reading |
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245 | 1 | 0. | ‡aHow to read novels like a professor / ‡cThomas C. Foster. |
250 | . | ‡a1st ed. | |
260 | . | ‡aNew York : ‡bHarper, ‡cc2008. | |
300 | . | ‡axviii, 312 p. ; ‡c21 cm. | |
504 | . | ‡aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [309]-312). | |
505 | 0 | . | ‡aPreface: Novel possibilities, or all animals aren't pigs? -- Introduction: Once upon a time : a short, chaotic, and entirely idiosyncratic history of the novel -- Pickup lines and open(ing) seductions or, why novels have first pages -- You can't breathe where the air is clear -- Who's in charge here? -- Never trust a narrator with a speaking part -- A still, small voice (or a great, galumphing one) -- Men (and women) made out of words, or, My pip ain't like your pip -- When very bad people happen to good novels -- Wrinkles in time, or Chapters just might matter -- Everywhere is just one place -- Clarissa's flowers -- Met-him-pike-hoses -- Life sentences -- Drowning in the stream of consciousness -- The light on Daisy's dock -- Fiction about fiction -- Source codes and recycle bins -- Interlude: Read with your ears -- Improbabilities : foundlings and magi, colonels and boy wizards -- What's the big idea--or even the small one? -- Who broke my novel? -- Untidy endings -- History in the novel/the novel in history -- Conspiracy theory -- Conclusion: The never-ending journey. |
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